[HOE] Doomsayers

["d_scott" <d_scott@ntlworld.com>]

Hi follks.

Quick query about the nature of the Glow. Say a player wants to run a
Doombringer, but doesn't want to deal with the whole Silas/ Joan thing. So
he decides that he was taught by one of the Schismatics, but he didn't see
things quite the way they taught them, having been a scientist before the
war. He decides that radiation magic is just like hexes, a source of power.
Radiation isn't divine, it just altered him to allow the source of the power
to be tapped. All the stuff about the Chosen and Cults and Schisms is
nonsense, just another reason for people to kill each other.

So the question is - can this character use Doomsayer powers? Or is the Glow
actually able to take them away because he doesn't 'believe' in it? If he
can, then what does he actually have Faith in?

I'm inclined to let him use the powers, since I can make ofor an interesting
character, but he won't have anyone to teach him anything but the basic
powers from the HoE rulebook, and he'll have to take the Outcast hindrance,
maybe even Enemy is he pissed off his old tutor enough, but he doesn't have
to take an Oath to follow Joan.

D